Lakehouse for Financial Services: Paving the Way for Data-Driven Innovation in FSIs
By When it comes to “data-driven innovation,” financial service institutions (FSI) aren’t what typically come to mind. But with massive amounts of data at their potential disposal, this isn’t for lack of imagination. FSIs want to innovate but are continually slowed down by complex legacy architectures and vendor lock-in that prevent data and AI from...
Why We Invested in Labelbox: Streamline Unstructured Data Workflows in a Lakehouse
Last month, Databricks announced the creation of Databricks Ventures, a strategic investment vehicle to foster the next generation of innovation and technology harnessing the power of data and AI. We launched with the Lakehouse Fund, inspired by the growing adoption of the lakehouse architecture, which will support early and growth-stage companies extending the lakehouse ecosystem...
How DPG Delivers High-Quality and Marketable Segments to Its Advertisers
This is a guest authored post by Bart Del Piero, Data Scientist, DPG Media. At the start of a campaign, marketers and publishers will often have a hypothesis of who the target segment will be, but once a campaign starts, it can be very difficult to see who actually responds, abstract a segment based on...
Announcing Databricks Seattle R&D Site
Today, we are excited to announce the opening of our Seattle R&D site and our plan to hire hundreds of engineers in Seattle in the next several years. Our office location is in downtown Bellevue. At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next...
Accenture and Databricks Lakehouse Accelerate Digital Transformation
This is a collaborative post from Accenture and Databricks. We thank Matt Arellano, Managing Director, Global Data & AI Ecosystem Lead -- Accenture, for his contributions. To keep pace with the competition and address customer demands, companies are looking to quickly bring new capabilities to the market, boost innovation and scale more efficiently. Customers...
Snowflake Claims Similar Price/Performance to Databricks, but Not So Fast!
On Nov 2, 2021, we announced that we set the official world record for the fastest data warehouse with our Databricks SQL lakehouse platform. These results were audited and reported by the official Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) in a 37-page document available online at tpc.org. We also shared a third-party benchmark by the Barcelona...
What to Expect at Data + AI World Tour
This year, we’re doing things a bit differently. In this still very virtual world, we wanted to find a way to bring the energy of Data + AI Summit and the power of lakehouse to a whole new audience. That’s why we're thrilled to introduce the community to Data + AI World Tour, which brings...
Announcing Databricks Engineering Fellowship
We are excited to announce a new program called Databricks Engineering Fellowship to recognize new graduates with exceptional academic achievements or extracurricular impact, in the field of computer science. This fellowship supports new graduates joining Databricks in all areas relevant to Databricks engineering, covering computer systems, databases, frontend development, infrastructure, machine learning, security, and more....
Eliminating the Anti-competitive DeWitt Clause for Database Benchmarking
At Databricks, we often use the phrase “the future is open” to refer to technology; it reflects our belief that open data architecture will win out and subsume proprietary ones (we just set a new official record on TPC-DS). But "open" isn't just about code. It's about how we as an industry operate and foster...
Summer 2021 Databricks Internship – Their Work and Their Impact!
With COVID precautions still in place, the 2021 Databricks Software Engineering Summer internship was conducted virtually with members of the intern class joining us from their home offices located throughout the world. As always, this year’s interns collaborated on a number of impactful projects, covering a wide range of data and computer science disciplines, from...